A Vintage Christmas Coastal Style Home Tour 2014

This post is about how I love to incorporate vintage finds into my home decor for Christmas with some tips for you if you enjoy the vintage Christmas decorating style.

I’ve been finished decorating our home for Christmas for a couple of weeks now, and as an on~line shop owner this is the season for squeezing everything in to a condensed time slot! I have many photos to share with you today, welcome on in…

It all started with this wreath that is hanging over the living room mantel. I generally start styling a room around one large piece that inspires me, and this vintage wreath that I’ve had for many years was my muse in color and vintage vibe.

It’s filled with the original picks, frosted pinecones, vintage bells and baubles and is actually some sort of older plastic. In past years I’ve hung it (and it’s coordinating “twin”) on our double front doors.

A pull back shot of the living room shows that I’ve gone forward with the aqua tones from the wreath with some more subtle touches.

A vintage tulle tutu wreath from a sweet blogging friend who featured it on her blog a year or two ago.

Mixing textures and lots of vintage with a bit of mercury glitz. Do you see a famous blue box in one of the stockings? It’s empty, and the treasured Tiffany blue is too special to trash.

The tree is a fresh frasier fir, which is what we can get here in South Florida. I have used only white twinkle lights and no ornaments to keep it simple.

Touches of blue and fresh flowers.

Gifts are wrapped in vintage wallpapers and ribbons are fashioned from torn vintage fabrics. This gift has simple blue and white French ticking and frosted pinecones.

Fresh greenery scraps are used for embellishing the gifts.

Garden benches have been brought inside and we pile up the presents all month long on these favorite furniture pieces! The bowl with ornaments is a vintage light fixture that I’ve turned upside down.

I love simple, but need my fix of glitz.

And lastly in the tour is a corner of the living room that I use for storage. Because the living room is what you see when you walk in it has to be organized and my props are neatly tucked away. A simple fresh boxwood wreath dresses it up nicely…

I’m sharing only the living room and will share more over the next couple of weeks and participating in some blog parties.

Don’t miss out!

Comments

Okay Janet, I am in love… let me count the ways… the blue shutter behind the tree and the rustic benches with your gold tables… perfect. The floral paper is darling… I love your style so much. I know my readers will too. I am so glad you added your lovely home to my Christmas in the Country tour. I have enjoyed it so much, feel like I have visited all of my favorite places! xxx….Brooke fromCreative Country Mom's Vintage Home and Garden

The past few years I've used silver, gold and that blue. This makes me want to pull it all out and use it somewhere in the house. My mind is going now and I think I have just the place. I love the snow in the ball jars with the pine. So very vintage looking and so pretty too.

I just love your whole post! The vintage gift wraps, the lovely balance of light and simple with bejeweled and pretty – just perfect. And the color story works great for me – I just did a tiffany blue Hannukah post! Love your taste level and your design sensibility!

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Welcome to Shabbyfufu! I'm Janet, a forever artisan and often entrepreneur who wears lots of hats. You'll always find me working on the blog, and also as a nationally and internationally published photographer and stylist for several magazines. My mission for this blog is taken straight from the way that I live. I hope to inspire you to live a comfortable life in your own home without much fuss or great expense. You can reach me at shabbyfufu@me.com

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